At the turn of the century, with the pressure of measurable impact, the Agency moved toward more easily measured inputs and away from the longer-term system strengthening activities of the previous two decades.
While initially developed by the government to address the critical need to fill the Gap, in the longer term, this system might be spun off to the commercial sector for its continued operations.
However, when this outcome was discussed with patients and professionals, they expressed the view that in the longer term the system could reduce the need for surgery visits.
And in the longer term disparate systems may converge and become interconnected, bringing up a whole host of new questions.What is already clear is that the infrastructure required to support wireless communications will have to be massive.
But in the longer term, entire systems may need to be rebuilt.
The report says: "In the longer term, the new system will be less generous to just about everyone than the system it is replacing.
In the longer term, however, such systems may not be viable without stable source populations in protected or restored wetland patches.
In the longer term, case mix systems may prove useful in fairer allocation of budgets and in the production of case mix adjusted measures of performance.
In the longer term, cloud-based systems for sharing patient data could also have a tremendous impact on research into new diagnostic, treatment, and preventive methods.
But a powerful opportunity provided by biometric technology is that your iris is part of you, it can't be lost, and in the longer term I envisage a system which depends on a biometric rather than the card.
For the longer term, he proposed a system under which garbage would be trucked to collection stations throughout the city, then shipped by barge to railroad hubs where it would be transferred to boxcars.
